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Step 1: Packet is Received into Interface from Wire

During this step, the packet is received into the Nexus 7000 port. When troubleshooting this step, we want to look to ensure there is transceiver interoperability, and validate whether we are seeing any errors on the interface. We do this via using the following commands

Ethernet1/1
sfp is present
name is CISCO-AVAGO <<< If this says type is (unknown), it is not supported.
part number is SFBR-7700SDZ
revision is B4
serial number is AGD12434116
nominal bitrate is 10300 MBits/sec
Link length supported for 50/125um fiber is 82 m(s)
Link length supported for 62.5/125um fiber is 26 m(s)
cisco id is --
cisco extended id number is 4

Step 2: Linksec Decryption Occurs, 1st stage Port QoS

In step 2, Linksec decryption occurs as well as receive side stage 1 QoS.

It is important to step back and evaluate the difference between stage 1 and stage 2 QoS. The difference is that some ports can be configured in shared mode, whereas some can be configured in dedicated mode, on the 10G modules. What this means, is that there is 10g of bandwidth that can be dedicated to a port or shared amongst ports (4 ports, on the m132 module).

When running in shared mode, there exists a chance for contention accessing the 10g bandwidth through the 4:1 Mux. To alleviate this, some QoS intelligence was passed down to the 4:1 Mux which aggregates the ports.

In dedicated mode, there is no QoS applied at the Mux, instead, all traffic is processed in phase 2 QoS. To summarize, in shared mode, 1st stage QoS ensures fair access to the 10g of port bandwidth. In both shared and dedicated mode, 2nd stage QoS occurs to provide ingress queuing to the system.

For the ingress QoS, we are concerned about the Receive side QoS parameters in the show queuing command.